A Sea Of Red

My power flickered a few times yesterday afternoon, then when I was at Bryson's last night it did the same thing. Add to that the e-mail I got this morning that said it was doing it on campus yesterday (even causing all of the A/C units to be manually restarted) and it got me wondering. Anyone know what happened to make the power flicker across the entire city when the weather was nice?

According to WSET, a power line wire snapped over near the TV station, causing about 1100 people to be without power. I don't know if that had anything to do with your problem or not, Super.

That would make sense...SJ and I live just a few miles from there...it even caused stop lights to go out on Greenview drive

Would it have effected things all the way over off of English Tavern though?

yes, because I live over there and my power was out.

The overall AREA power issue was a result of something different:
http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/loc ... gion/6085/

Voltage problems in Appalachian Power’s transmission system caused power spikes and outages across Lynchburg and surrounding counties Wednesday afternoon and evening.

Appalachian Power Corporate Communications Manager Todd Burns said at about 4:30 p.m., operators noticed “transmission operations” on the 138 kilovolt system that supplies power to the Lynchburg area.

“It appears that something is on a line, or something is causing a short,” Burns said.

I was at TRBC practicing with the choir and the lights went out while we were practicing our last song (We finished a capella and then the lights came back on as we were leaving)

Lights flickered over here in Boonsboro.

Power went out at the Hilton, emergency generators picked up the slack for about 30 minutes to even it out.

Yeah, at work it kept flickering, just enough to shut our computers down each time. Man was that annoying.

I don't understand this, why are PC's not equipped with built-in batteries in cases like this when your power source goes out? That would seem to make complete sense to me.

SuperJon wrote:Would it have effected things all the way over off of English Tavern though?

I live off of English Tavern too and our entire neighborhood lost power.

hurricane fan wrote:

SuperJon wrote:Would it have effected things all the way over off of English Tavern though?

I live off of English Tavern too and our entire neighborhood lost power.

Hey, we're neighbors. I'm guessing you live in Russel Springs?

ALUmnus wrote:Yeah, at work it kept flickering, just enough to shut our computers down each time. Man was that annoying.

I don't understand this, why are PC's not equipped with built-in batteries in cases like this when your power source goes out? That would seem to make complete sense to me.

they make batteries like you are talking about, but they are pretty big. if they built it into the computer the price would go up a ton and the case for the computer would be much bigger

Uh, laptops can run entirely off of batteries, and they're very small.

You do know that laptop battery technology has been perfected over the last 20-30 years while having battery powered desktops is an untapped area technologically right?

Uh, with the way I described it, does the word "backup" come to mind? I was talking about a battery to keep a computer from shutting down in case of power outages and the like. Much like a smoke detector. Simple concept, but I guess not simple enough for the beej.

ALUmnus wrote:Uh, with the way I described it, does the word "backup" come to mind? I was talking about a battery to keep a computer from shutting down in case of power outages and the like. Much like a smoke detector. Simple concept, but I guess not simple enough for the beej.

So in other words a battery that can last about 5-10 minutes, long enough to save your stuff before it shuts down. It recharges when the computer turns back on.

ALUmnus wrote:Uh, with the way I described it, does the word "backup" come to mind? I was talking about a battery to keep a computer from shutting down in case of power outages and the like. Much like a smoke detector. Simple concept, but I guess not simple enough for the beej.

I have heard of battery backup thank you kindly. and I do get your explanation (my dad taught me everything he knows about computers and still does) Im just concurring with JDUB and then expounding upon it by mentioning the fact that batteries small enough to power laptops have been developed and improved upon over a number of years. If someone wants to develop a battery that can primarily power a desktop or even serve as a secondary power souce in the event there is no electrical power then more power (no pun intended) to them.

http://www.nextag.com/desktop-computer- ... earch-html


there you go. That could easily be built into the computer. I think that's the point of the original post. Why doesn't someone do that? It's a simple enough idea.

ALUmnus wrote:Uh, with the way I described it, does the word "backup" come to mind? I was talking about a battery to keep a computer from shutting down in case of power outages and the like. Much like a smoke detector. Simple concept, but I guess not simple enough for the beej.

"The Beej"

LUconn wrote:http://www.nextag.com/desktop-computer- ... earch-html


there you go. That could easily be built into the computer. I think that's the point of the original post. Why doesn't someone do that? It's a simple enough idea.

Because people like smaller computers and that thing is ginormous and weighs a ton.

RagingTireFire wrote:

LUconn wrote:http://www.nextag.com/desktop-computer- ... earch-html


there you go. That could easily be built into the computer. I think that's the point of the original post. Why doesn't someone do that? It's a simple enough idea.

Because people like smaller computers and that thing is ginormous and weighs a ton.

exactly my point

Rocketfan wrote:

ALUmnus wrote:Uh, with the way I described it, does the word "backup" come to mind? I was talking about a battery to keep a computer from shutting down in case of power outages and the like. Much like a smoke detector. Simple concept, but I guess not simple enough for the beej.

"The Beej"

I had a radio show a couple years ago with a friend of mine who would always call me that...its one of those nicknames I frankly would rather do without.

BJWilliams wrote:

Rocketfan wrote:

ALUmnus wrote:Uh, with the way I described it, does the word "backup" come to mind? I was talking about a battery to keep a computer from shutting down in case of power outages and the like. Much like a smoke detector. Simple concept, but I guess not simple enough for the beej.

"The Beej"

I had a radio show a couple years ago with a friedn of mine who would always call me that...its one of those nicknames I frankly would rather do without.

will someone please replace "Scorched Earth" with " The Beej"......since BJ feels so fondly about it, lets keep it around long term.

Rocketfan wrote:

BJWilliams wrote:

Rocketfan wrote: "The Beej"

I had a radio show a couple years ago with a friedn of mine who would always call me that...its one of those nicknames I frankly would rather do without.

will someone please replace "Scorched Earth" with " The Beej"......since BJ feels so fondly about it, lets keep it around long term.

Please don't...seriously